Adam Holland

Dr. Adam Holland

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 July 2024 in Education Sciences
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SGShannon Stark Guss
Shannon Stark Guss
DCDouglas Harvey Clements
Douglas Harvey Clements
ESElica Sharifnia
Elica Sharifnia
JSJulie Sarama
Julie Sarama
AHAdam Holland
Adam Holland
MVMegan Vinh
Megan Vinh
Foundational thinking for later use of technology, particularly coding, is necessary for an inclusive and sustainable future. Inclusive practices beginning in early childhood recognize children’s innate development of computational thinking—sequencing, repetition and looping, debugging, decomposing and composing, representation, and causality. This qualitative research describes processes of developing and evaluating hypothesized developmental progressions. Inclusive engagement of children with and without disabilities is described in examples for each level of each developmental progression. Implications for teaching and learning with inclusive practices are described for children with and without disabilities.

21 December 2023 in Education Sciences
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SGShannon Stark Guss
Shannon Stark Guss
CLChih Ing Lim
Chih Ing Lim
DCDouglas Harvey Clements
Douglas Harvey Clements
ESElica B. Sharifnia
Elica B. Sharifnia
AHAdam Holland
Adam Holland
JSJulie Sarama
Julie Sarama
Early science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning experiences often exclude children with disabilities and intersecting identities. To promote learning in STEM for all children, the Curriculum Research Framework (CRF) was applied to build learning trajectories of STEM for children from birth to age 5. The CRF was extended and enhanced to generate explicitly inclusive learning trajectories for children with and without disabilities. The process of generating a priori foundations, building learning trajectories, and testing the results in inclusive settings led to new resources for early childhood education (ECE) and early childhood special education (ECSE) practitioners and generated implications for creating and evaluating learning trajectories in ways that affirm that all children belong in STEM. Challenges faced and lessons learned in this process are presented to guide future research and development using the revised and enhanced CRF.